... and so it starts
in approximately
15 hours and 30 mins.
one week not touching chlorine!
must be a first for me :/
(not counting the times when i go on holiday, which is about once per year. ha.)
even in RG, i'd train in the afternoons during exam week, which makes it about 6 sessions.
andand it doesnt help that sch nats is the week directly after CTs either.
shucks.
COE gathering on saturday at alyssa's house
was quite okay
rather boring.
the only memorable things were the honeydew sago (!!), the slide and the phototaking.
and for me, John's little talk with me on the balcony
(which was supposed to be private but then the boys started coming back from playing soccer and they walked right under the balcony -.-)
there's no way i can bring myself to quit after that talk.
i really didn't know he thought so highly of me, that he bothers whether i quit or not and that he actually wants me to stay.
and of course there's the dear mosquito squad, how can i leave them? :D
but i guess for now, all i want to concentrate on is surviving the CTs in one piece, THEN i'll start thinking about swimming again. ha.
i think it might sound quite stupid,
but somehow i've only come to realise how much i love swimming after i joined COE, after having to drag myself to training 10 times a week for the past (almost) 2 years.
you'd think it'd kill whatever interest in swimming i had.
but just the opposite, it made me realise how i would feel if i were to stop swimming.
how much i would miss the training sessions where you push yourself, where nowhere else can u get the same kind of satisfaction you get after a good training set.
the knowledge that you're working towards a goal everyday by training hard,
how much i love the pre-race adrenaline, even though
the exhilaration when you've just finished a good race
the fun overseas meets! :D
and of course the many dear dear friends i've made (:
i would have missed out on SO much if i hadn't stepped into the swimming arena all those years ago.
true, i've had to give up many things (like any hope of a social life),
had to make so many sacrifices,
had to wake up at 5am to go for trng, then rush to schooland then to trng again on weekdays, and spend my weekends sleeping and catching up on work
but
swimming is
and given another choice,
i wouldn't have it any other way (:
You're a carousel, you're a wishing well,
And you light me up, when you ring my bell.
You're a mystery, you're from outer space,
You're every minute of my everyday.
-Michael Buble(: